Tourists visit Anping Fort in Tainan, Taiwan, 2015. Anping Fort used to be called Fort Zeelandia which was a fortress built over ten years from 1624 to 1634 by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), in the town of Anping (Tainan) on the island of Formosa (present-day Taiwan), during their 38-year rule over the western part of that island.